collateral

Plural: collaterals

Noun

• a security pledged for the repayment of a loan
• A security or guarantee (usually an asset) pledged for the repayment of a loan if one cannot procure enough funds to repay.
• A collateral (not linear) family member.
• A branch of a bodily part or system of organs.
• Printed materials or content of electronic media used to enhance sales of products (short form of collateral material).
• A thinner blood vessel providing an alternate route to blood flow in case the main vessel becomes occluded.
• A contemporary or rival.

Adjective

• descended from a common ancestor but through different lines
  • "cousins are collateral relatives"

Adjective Satellite

• serving to support or corroborate
  • "collateral evidence"
• accompany, concomitant
  • "collateral target damage from a bombing run"
• situated or running side by side
  • "collateral ridges of mountains"

Adj

• Parallel, in the same vein, side by side.
• Corresponding; accompanying, concomitant.
• Being aside from the main subject, target, or goal.
• Of an indirect ancestral relationship, as opposed to lineal descendency.
• Relating to a collateral in the sense of an obligation or security.
• Expensive to the extent of being paid through a loan.
• Coming or directed along the side.
• Acting in an indirect way.
• Having the phloem and xylem adjacent.

Examples

• a collateral descendant
• Although not a direct cause, the border skirmish was certainly a collateral incitement for the war.
• Besides the arteries blood streams through numerous veins we call collaterals.
• collateral damage
• collateral pressure
• Uncles, aunts, cousins, nephews and nieces are collateral relatives.

Synonyms

confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, indirect, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying, ancillary, collateral security, pledge, subordinate, tangential

Antonyms

lineal

Related Words

lateral, mortgage

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